Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area
Successful Product Management Director in IT services. Customer focused, a problem-solving leader with 20+ years of experience in conceiving, creating, implementing, and managing IT solutions that drive business value and business transformation with Supply Chain Solutions for Fortune 100 Technology clients. Experienced in product lifecycle management that recognizes changing technology and client needs. Deep industry experience in Technology verticals.
Lead and mature the Project Management Office to a Gartner world class Portfolio Management Office. This includes defining standards, guidelines, best practices, and governance of our portfolio of work through: - Strategic fit and business value assessment - Identification and resolution of resource gaps - Creation and tactical execution of our IT Services and Project Portfolios - Organizational Scorecard - Industry Leading Enterprise Project Portfolio Management tools - Resource Development of Career and Sr. Project and Program Managers - Accountable for internally and externally facing project execution - Budget and cost center management - Vendor Management - Strategic direction setting as part of IT leadership team
Lead and mature the Project Management Office to a Gartner world class Portfolio Management Office. This includes defining standards, guidelines, best practices, and governance of our portfolio of work through: - Strategic fit and business value assessment - Identification and resolution of resource gaps - Creation and tactical execution of our IT Services and Project Portfolios - Organizational Scorecard - Industry Leading Enterprise Project Portfolio Management tools - Resource Management of Career and Sr. Project and Program Managers - Accountable for internally and externally facing project execution - Budget and cost center management - Vendor Management
Engineering Manager responsible for bringing consumer electronic devices to market through worldwide supply chains. Areas of expertise are supply chain strategy, product quality, product costing, reliability, and continuity of supply. Works closely with contract manufacturers in Asia and local technical teams to ensure timely resolution of manufacturing and quality issues. Applies structured and evidence based problem solving strategies, including DOE, D-Optimal, and Binomial and Nominal Logistic Regression to ensure timely resolution of quality issues and cost improvements.
Accountable for printer quality through manufacturing, including yields, DPMO, and projected quality at install. Responsible for establishing and reducing cycle times and direct material costs while balancing quality through statistical analysis. Worked closely with local technical teams to ensure adequate test coverage while minimizing cost. Reduced DPMO by 70% while realizing >$1M year over year cost reductions. Manages five individuals.
Responsible for determining and defining software product requirements through best in class analysis and customer conversations. Also responsible for program management of the software projects, ensuring on time delivery of quality products. Skills include project management, requirements documentation, software engineering, software test engineering, business case development and adoption using ROI, IRR, and NPV including software program portfolio analysis. During this time I also designed databases in an Oracle environment and designed and developed 4 mission critical systems with C#, Java, PL/SQL, and Visual Basic.
Responsible for product development and pre-sales support of AMR software used in the regulated and deregulated energy markets. During this time, I designed and developed software systems with Oracle and Visual basic. These systems were responsible for reading thousands of energy meters nightly and aggregating energy consumption data for the energy industry.